Stuart Evers is a British novelist, short story writer and critic, born in Macclesfield, Cheshire in 1976. He was brought up in Congleton, Cheshire. In late 2017, Evers was announced as the joint winner of the 2018 Eccles British Library Writer's Award - one of Europe's richest prizes for a work in progress.

Fiction

His short fiction has appeared in Prospect
Underground
, and on Granta
This is Not a Test
, The Sunday Times
What's in Swindon?
and The White Review
Somnoproxy
online, as well as in three editions of ''The Best British Short Stories''. His story Our Italics was read by Anton Lesser on Radio 4 in 2016. He has also contributed to two Comma Press anthologies
Beta Life
an
Protest
- and Eight Ghosts, a collection of ghost stories commissioned by English Heritage.

Ten Stories About Smoking

Evers published his first book, '' Ten Stories About Smoking'', (Picador) in 2011, which won The London Book Award.

If This Is Home

His debut novel, ''If This Is Home'' '','' appeared in July 2012''.'' The novel is set in Cheshire and Las Vegas.

Your Father Sends His Love

A further collection of stories, ''Your Father Sends His Love'' was published in 2015 and was shortlisted for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

The Blind Light

Published in 2020, ''The Blind Light'' was Evers' first novel for eight years. ''The Blind Light'' "moves from the Fifties through to the present day, taking in the global and local events that will shape and define them all. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the War on Terror, from the Dagenham strikes to Foot and Mouth, from Skiffle to Rave, we see a family come together, driven apart, fracture and reform – as the pressure of the past is brought, sometimes violently, to bear on the present." The Blind Light was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award in 2021.

Journalism

Evers reviews books regularly for a variety of publications, including ''

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, The Spectator'' and ''The Observer''. His essay on Sherwood Anderson appeared i
Morphologies
and he has written long pieces on James Salter and David Peace for The Quietus.

Music

In 2015, Evers collaborated with the band

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, using his three short stories, ''Dress'', ''Windows'', and ''5,040'', as basis for the music videos of songs "Doing the Right Thing", "Numbers", and "How" respectively. These videos were released ahead of the English band's release of their second album ''Not to Disappear'' in 2016. All three stories used in this collaboration included no dialogue in accordance with the inability of a music video to express dialogue. He has also read with musical accompaniment from

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.http://stuartevers.blogspot.co.uk/

References

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